Godfrey Grech

Coordinator of the M.Sc. Biomedical Sciences, Lecturer at the Department of Pathology, University of Malta.

Biography

Dr Godfrey Grech is Senior Lecturer at the University of Malta and currently responsible for the National Breast Cancer Research Project. He is highly recognised by the clinical sector and runs numerous projects in colabration with Mater Dei Hospital and International Institutions such as the Molecular Medicine Institute in Leeds. The main research topic aims to identify biomarkers to classify breast cancer patients into a specific therapeutic group that shall benefit from activation of phosphatases as a main therapeutic option. Dr Godfrey Grech is part of international scientific committees including the International Scientific Council of the European Group for Molecular Pathology (EMP); Global Leader at the Genomic Medicine within the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH); member of the Pharmacogenomics Working Group of the Global Genomic Medicine Consortium (G2MC); Leader of the Cancer Position Paper at the European Association for Predictive, Preventive & Personalised medicine (EPMA); and national contact point for the PharmacoGenetics for Every Nation Initiative (PGENI)..

Research Interest

Breast Cancer, immunity to infectious agents and cancer and has led discovery efforts to identify biomarkers associated with various cancer indications and infectious diseases.